Skip to main content

View Post [edit]

Poster: Reade Date: May 28, 2018 8:12am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: no big deal but still...

Yeah most def think about channeling your InnDoo and asking him about it. Great article from that guy by the way. Unfortunately it appears there's only been enough funding so far to digitize the first twelve years of the Spectrum (1950-1962). Bummer. Sounds like that guy would have been all over the Kleinhan's show. EDIT: This path has been trundled down before as you can see in these links, including forum-ite LIA noting how the UB student newspaper hasn't yet been digitized beyond '62. Though now with the name of the guy who most probably covered the concert for the Spectrum it's possible this whole thing has been nudged ever so slightly forward. Interesting comment left on the essay blog site: "I went to this show with a half dozen friends. We were students at UB, Buf State and Canisius. Kleinhans had a motorized orchestra pit that could lift up flush with the stage. The Dead were down in the pit when they started their set in the dark with a very slow and loose Dark Star. They segued into St. Stephen after rising up to stage level. Very cool. I also remember Pigpen playing this huge set of gongs and other percussion during the jam with the Philharmonic. The Dead wanted to play a second set and started to but it went past 11:00PM so the union electricians cut the power to the stage and brought the house lights up. Angry response from the crowd. Jerry may have said they "were too tired to play more" to calm things down." There's the angry response from the crowd you were recalling! But it was over the juice being cut. Geez the Dead doing Dark Star in the dark in 1970 down in an orchestra pit, lifting ever so slightly as they played, only to burst into St. Stephen as the reached the stage level!?!?! C'Mon! Clearly I was born in the right place, but just a tad too late. http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/04/buffalo-31770.html http://cloudsurfing.gdhour.com/archives/9673
This post was modified by Reade on 2018-05-28 15:12:28

Reply [edit]

Poster: Lokomotiv2 Date: May 28, 2018 4:39pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: no big deal but still...

Reade, thanks for digging up those interesting links, especially the comments that followed. Nice to know that some are quite recent.

Cutting the power sounds like a reason to piss off the crowd;
as Fred Flintstone would say "I'll buy that"!

I guess no one has stepped forward to claim the reward.

Reply [edit]

Poster: Reade Date: May 29, 2018 11:58am
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: no big deal but still...

I'm thinking the local band "Mellow Brick Road" caught the break of their short career that evening, getting to share the stage at one juncture with the 1970 Grateful Dead.
Their manager or booking agent or whatever earned his fee that month for sure.

Reply [edit]

Poster: Lokomotiv2 Date: May 28, 2018 4:39pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: no big deal but still...

Reade, thanks for digging up those interesting links, especially the comments that followed. Nice to know that some are quite recent.

Cutting the power sounds like a reason to piss off the crowd;
as Fred Flintstone would say "I'll buy that"!

I guess no one has stepped forward to claim the reward.

Reply [edit]

Poster: Lokomotiv2 Date: May 28, 2018 4:39pm
Forum: GratefulDead Subject: Re: no big deal but still...

Reade, thanks for digging up those interesting links, especially the comments that followed. Nice to know that some are quite recent.

Cutting the power sounds like a reason to piss off the crowd;
as Fred Flintstone would say "I'll buy that"!

I guess no one has stepped forward to claim the reward.